Kindergarteners as Experts - A video that explains how Kindergarten teachers paired their students with a 6th grade partner in order to research a particular bird species. What is powerful here is the way that a standardized "project board" format enabled the Kindergarten children to successfully share and present their research Show & Tell
Engage students with pre, during, post-reading activities
Read a simpler text first that exposes students to conceptual or cultural content, language patterns, or vocabulary
Read multiple texts on the same topic
Focus on main ideas, then details, then implications
Teach reading strategies
Use activity protocols
Scaffolding Text Structure
Format the text:
o Divide it into smaller, more manageable chunks
o Increase the font size
o Double-space between sentences & paragraphs
o Bold main ideas
o Highlight and color code important language patterns
o Add headings, titles, or captions to long passages for orientation
Add Features to the Text:
o Hints regarding genre
o Images that clarify meaning
o Links or QR codes to related texts
o Paraphrases of main points
o Opportunities to DO something at strategic points (Create, make a personal connection, reflect, summarize, tell a partner something)
Table of Contents
Analogizing
Activating Prior Knowledge
Analyzing
Annotate
Categorize, map, match sequence, or sort--objects, pictures, or sentences
Contextual Inquiry
Highlight
- Literature Circle Thinking Hats
Responding to Non-fiction TemplateSelective Underlining
Semantic Feature Analysis
SQ4R
Brainstorming
ABC Brainstorm
Building Academic Language
Checking for Comprehension/Understanding
ABC Boxes
ABC Summary
Acrostic
Blog or Discussion Forum
Choose Your Own Reading Activity
Closure Activities
Exit Tickets
Foldables
Games
Gimme 5
Grab-a-Word or Picture
Graphic Organizers
Hear/Circle
Interview the Text
Journal
PearDeck
Popcorn
Reading Response Choice Boards
Reflect or Self-assess (I can . . . )
Self-assessments (I can . . . )
Sentence Starters for Reader Response
Sequence (Events, Images, Text)
Signal Cards
Snowballs
Sound Effects Read Aloud Activity
Think-Pair-Share
Three, Two, One
Total Physical Response (TPR)
Wows, Wishes, & Words of Wisdom
Write True/False Statements
Collaborating
Collaborative Inquiry Template
Group Norms
Group Roles (Tent Cards)
Learning Centers
Process Sheets
Signal(s) for Attention
Toolkit for Collaboration
Comparing
Chart
Compare & Contrast
Compare & Contrast Key Words
Graphic Organizer
Map
Mind Map
Open Compare/Contrast
T-chart
Venn Diagram
Venn Diagram (2, 3, with summary)
Web
Critical Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Process Sheets
Story Boards (Elementary version; Online Storyboard Creator)
Think Alouds
Thinking Routines
Venn Diagrams
Word Sorts
Debating
Human Graphing (Ex 1, Ex 2)
Tricider
Defining
Concept Definition Map
Discussing
Affinity Diagram (Example)
Carrousel Walk
Contextual Inquiry
Fishbowl
Focus Group
Four Corners
Games (Tell Me About)
Human Graphing (Ex 1, Ex 2)
Inside/Outside Circles
Interviews
Jigsaw
Mixers
Musical Chairs
Paired Activities (Information Gap)
Panel of Experts
Problem-solving Tasks
Protocols
Protocols from Expeditionary Learning
Reciprocal/Power Teaching
Role Plays
Sentence Frames
Sentence Starters
Signature Searches
Simulations
Story Squares
Strategies for Structuring Discussions
Surveys or Questionnaires
Templates
Text Rendering Protocol
Think-Pair-Share
Word Walls
Evaluating Pros/Cons
The 4 As Protocol
Weighted Pros and Cons
Decision Making Worksheet
Appraising Change Worksheet
Giving Feedback
Carrousel Walk
Quality Work Protocol - Pages 6-10 of this PDF contain templates teachers can use to help learners identify and evaluate quality work
Resources for Giving Feedback
Interviewing
Interview Preparation
Interview Template
Investigating
Inquiry Chart
Scavenger Hunt (Another ex.)
Signature Searches
Surveys or Questionnaires
Organizing & Synthesizing Information
Affinity Diagram (Example)
Cause and Effect Worksheet
Character Comparisons/Maps
Graphic Organizers
Pattern Puzzles
Story Map
Text Rendering Protocol
Thesis/Proof
Venn Diagram (2, 3, w/ summary)
Predicting
Anticipation Guide
Cloze Passages
Highlight words they KNOW
KWL Chart (Modified)or Inquiry Chart
Magic Box
Mystery Picture
Predict the Text with Pictures
Read an Easier Text on Same Topic
Presenting
Kindergarteners as Experts - A video that explains how Kindergarten teachers paired their students with a 6th grade partner in order to research a particular bird species. What is powerful here is the way that a standardized "project board" format enabled the Kindergarten children to successfully share and present their research
Show & Tell
Project-based Language Learning
PBL in the TL FAQs (by Laura Sexton)PBL Tips for TL Teaching (by Laura Sexton)
Project-based Language Learning Wiki (with resources for scaffolding specific aspects from Cherice Montgomery & Cindy Kendall)
Questioning
(See also: Interviewing)Effective Questioning & Classroom Talk (a Toolkit)
QAR
Questioning
Reader Response
Reciprocal Strategies Wksheet
The Six Types of Socratic Questions
Think Aloud
Retelling
Expository Text Retelling Rubric
Inside/Outside Circles
Jigsaw (Read & Retell)
Narrative Story Retelling Checklist
Non-fiction Retelling Self-assessment Sheet (elementary)
Read & Retell
Roll & Retell
Roll a Topic
Say Something (Sentence Stems)
Sentence Frames
Story Boards (Elementary version; Online Storyboard Creator)
Story Maps (Online StoryMap Creator)
Templates (Foldables, Pop-up Cards, Scientific Writing Scaffolds, Smoosh Books, Videos)
Scaffolding Engagement
Extract information for a purpose
Scaffolding the Reading Process
Scaffolding Text Structure
Format the text:
o Divide it into smaller, more manageable chunks
o Increase the font size
o Double-space between sentences & paragraphs
o Bold main ideas
o Highlight and color code important language patterns
o Add headings, titles, or captions to long passages for orientation
Add Features to the Text:
o Hints regarding genre
o Images that clarify meaning
o Links or QR codes to related texts
o Paraphrases of main points
o Opportunities to DO something at strategic points (Create, make a personal connection, reflect, summarize, tell a partner something)
Summarizing
ABC Boxes
ABC Brainstorm
ABC Summary
Acrostic
Assemble Cut-up Summaries
Checklist Retelling
Closure Activities
Common Core Sentence Frames
Dramatize
Draw or Illustrate Key Passages of Text
Exit Tickets
Foldables
Graphic Organizers
Gimme 5
Invent Subtitles
Lesson Closure Frame
Making Inferences
Map the Story
Paraphrase
Read & Retell
Reciprocal/Power Teaching
Roll & Retell
Save the Last Word for Me
Snowballs
Story Pyramid
Story Squares
Sum It Up (Instructions)
Text Rendering Protocol
Three-minute Pause
3-2-1
Task Completion
Flask
Video Production
5-shot Guide to Video Production - Demonstrates different camera shots with a list of key principles
Vocabulary Development
Antonyms
Categorize
Cognates
Focus on General Academic Language That Transfers Across Disciplines
Graphic Organizers (See these as well)
Language Ladders
Mind Maps
Prefixes
Signal Cards
Stand When You Hear...
Suffixes
Synonyms
Vocabulary Graphic Organizers
Vocabulary Word Map (Alt. Version)
Word Banks
Word Families
Word Roots
Word Walls (Editable Word Wall Templates)